Hey Beer Baron and Ronin, both of you are wrong.
How about you dont make guess's and claim them as fact. Its misleading to others reading this post.
Beer Baron you may well take an angle grinder to the corners of your track pads, but dont presume my supplier does the same. They don't. Elongating mounting holes would also be a very stupid thing to do. As would cutting off the friction material you have paid good $$ for.
Ronin, your speil below is also a guess and implies the custom pads I use are a very shoddy, substandard product.
Saying the friction material overhang is cut off the backing plate thus reducing footprint is WRONG. And no, you dont put new friction material onto an old backing plate, 100% correct on that one.
These are all 'backyard' type fixes, the custom pads I supply are professionally done.
"you can't add material at the bottom of the pad - all 'they' are doing is taking the top edge off the pad.
you are not mataining the 'full face' of the pad anymore.
that is unless you are putting a new friction material onto an old backing plate..."
Ronin,